Cooking utensil.



W. 1). EARL.

COOKING UTENSIL. APPLIOATION FILED MAY 15, 1908.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

. animator ETERS m WASHINGTON. n. c,

WARD D. EARL, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

COOKING U'IENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Dec. 8, I908".

Application'filed May 15, 1908. Serial No. 433,060. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARD D. EARL, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Cookin Utensils, of which t 1e following is a speci cation.

This invention relates to a culinary utensil which is intended more especially for frying eggs, although it may be used for other purposes.

The object of the invention is the provision of a utensil comprising two hingedly-connected pan sections, one of which serves as a cover, and an egg holder hingedly connected with one of the sections and having pockets for receiving the individual eggs, the holder being of metal and of considerable mass so that when once heated, it will retain its heat for a long time.

Another object of the invention is the employment of a novel hingeconstruction between the pan sections and the holder whereby the utensil can be opened and closed and the holder raised from the frying section pvheln it is desired to remove the eggs or other With these objects in view and others, as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel fea tures of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described heremafter and set forth with particularity in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illus trates one object of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the utensil. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof on line 2-2,

Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the top section open. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the hinged connections between the parts.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing, A and B designate the cover and frying sections, respectively, of the utensil which are of any desired shape and formed with handles 1, the inner faces of the sections being flat so as to fit closely to the opposite sides of the inner section 0 that constitutes the egg holder, the said latter section having egg-receiving pockets 2. The section C is cast aluminum or other suitable material of considerable mass so that when once heated, it will retain its heat for a long time, and the same is provided with a handle portion 2 that is disposed between the handles 1 of the sections A and B. The section B has upwardly-extending lugs or ears 3 that are provided with apertures for receiving separate pintles 4 and 5, and on the egg-holder section C is a radially-extending lug 6 that fits between the ears 3 and through which the intle 5 extends so as to hingedly connect t e sections B and C together. The section A has an extension 7 that is formed into ears 8 that are disposed between the ears 3 and are hin edly connected with the latter by the pint e 4. By this means, the cover section A can be swung open or closed independently of the egg holder C, and when the cover section is open, the e g holder can be raised and swung backwardIy'to the tilted or dotted line position a, Fig. 2, where it rests on the ears 8 that con stitute stops for limitin the opening movement of the said egg ho der. When the egg holder is in this position, the fried eggs can be readily removed from the frying section B.

From the fore 'oing description, taken in connection with t e accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of the method of o eration will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the inven tion appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention, together with the device whichI now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have. it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that such changes may be made when desired as are within the scolpe of the appended claims.

aving thus escribed the invention, what I claim is 1. In a utensil of the class described, the combination of a fry pan section having upwardly-extending ears, a cover section having ears disposed between the first-mentioned cars, a pintle passing through the ears for connecting the sections together, an e g holder having pockets, means for pivotalIy connecting the egg holder with the fry pan section at a point 0 pintle to permit the egg holder to rest on the ears of the cover section when the utensil is open.

cated inwardly from the 2. Ina utensil of the class described, the

body, and ears dis osed at the opposite side between the said ears and hingedly connect- 19 of the body from t e handle, a cover section ed therewith. of substantially the same form as the fry pan In testimony whereof I affix my signature section, a handle thereon, an extension on in presence of two witnesses.

5 the cover section disposed between the said lugs, a pintle passing through the extension WARD D EARL and ears to hingedly connect the sections, Witnesses: and a' disk-shaped egg holder having egg- H. D. YOUNKMAN,

holding pockets provided with a lug disposed J. R. ENSMINGER. 

